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Comment by Nulgar

Well, in a guild 5man, you can keep this up 10 out of 15 minutes. Though I doubt you can reach friendly status with your guild in the first week or Cataclysm, at least on Beta the rep gained is rather low. Might be helpful for alts levelled within the guild though.

Comment by Nulgar

Well, in a guild 5man, you can keep this up 10 out of 15 minutes. Though I doubt you can reach friendly status with your guild in the first week of Cataclysm, so it doesn't matter for the initial levelling progress - at least on Beta the rep gained is rather low, might change though. However, helpful for alts levelled within the guild, especially with higher-level chars helping.

Comment by Merton

I'm curious to know if we can just plop this down in a quest hub. Takes 3 bearers to keep the up time at max and if this also applies to quest experience, it might be useful for coordinated questing.

Comment by deffar

I would sell this "Friendly Reputation" for the 75g vendor price.

Comment by kmo64

What i am wondering is... is this stackable? i imagine its not but just wondering cause if this does as leveling with a friend u got the 35% bonus from gear counting cata/wotlk if it still gives xp bonus along with another 6% from banner, theres 41% and if u were lucky enough to win the ring from the fishing tourney in wotlk thats 46% or so give or take...... in saying that if ur friend had another one thats 52% along with what the guild has done i mean ur literally leveling at twice the rate.. which is nice becuase of the new characters.

Comment by elaren

So you won't be able to stack them at the same time but you could stack them one right after the other. 2 minutes should also be plenty of time between boss pulls too.

Comment by Dorleron

This doesn't change the Reputation you gain from turning in quests, so it probably doesn't change the experience you gain from turning in quests as well. So don't get your hopes up if you were hoping for a 15% bonus rep/exp from quests :(

Comment by Sindeady

Doesn't give extra rep in AB or WSG. To bad, thats the only 2 reps I really wanted this thing for :(

Comment by Diandra

so. This does not increase rep from boss kills. and does not work with quests rep.

ie: the only way this can be useful is farming rep by killing trash? can anyone confirm?

Comment by Drain7

But yes you SHOULD buy all 3 of these. During the 8min CD of the 15% flag you could spend 2 mins with 10% and 2 mins with 5%. This means that you could have a buff active 6 out of every 10mins, as opposed to just 2 out of every 10mins.

Comment by VSUReaper

Shares a CD with the lvl 85 healthstones

Comment by Thortok2000

Let me try to answer all possible questions.

It is not consumed when used. Buy it once, use it forever.

It works on all guildmates, even those who are not in your group.

It only increases gains that occur from kills. So xp, rep, and honor gains from KILLS ONLY are increased. This does, however, extend to bosses. It does not extend to quests, either normal or daily. It does not extend to bonus honor gained from any method other than kills.

Due to the internal nature of the way that Guild rep works, Guild rep does not actually trigger on a 'kill': it triggers on completing a 'criteria'. Even if that 'criteria' is to 'kill' something in a guild group, such as a boss in a heroic run or raid, the mechanics of Guild rep means that the banner will not increase it, even from 'kills.' It's unclear if this is intended or not or if it will be 'fixed' in a future patch. Every other rep possible to be gained from a kill (including those triggered/adjusted by tabards) works with this banner fine.

It does not stack with other guildmates' banners, or other guilds' banners, etc. However, the more of your guildmates that have one, the more likely that one of you will be able to place one when the others have theirs on cooldown.

Does not activate global cooldown as it is an item, so can be used in macros fairly well. (/use itemname)

I can see the most common use of this item being plopping it down right before a boss that gives rep is killed. For instance, those who grind reps can plop this down right before a boss in a heroic run. Depending on how long the run takes they could do it multiple times in one run, or other guildies can use theirs on other bosses. This works with all tabards (except Guild rep tabards), and also works with rep from kills that don't require tabards, for instance Classic and BC raid zones which give rep. I used mine on as many Molten Core bosses as I could when I was farming it. Every little bit shaved off that grind helps.

The second most common use will be in PvP (although for those more PvP oriented, this will probably be their most common use). When defending an objective, especially in a place like Tol Barad or any place a large amount of kills occur in the same spot, plop it down for the extra honor. The banner cannot be targeted or killed by the enemy faction, but if they kill you, your banner gets removed. (The banner disappears if you go an extended distance from it, or die.)

Finally, I expect the least common use will be when leveling or grinding a rep from killing small trash mobs. Unless you're in a group with other guildies who will use their banners too, or you spend extra time and effort to stay with your banner, you will only have periodic coverage. However, since you can macro it into a spell, you can use it on cooldown without really paying attention and pretty much forget you even have it. You'll occasionally get some extra rep or xp, but it won't be a constant benefit. If this is all you plan to use it for, the item's really not worth it, but if you're already carrying it around for one of the first two reasons, you may as well use it for this too.

Oh. And it makes for good screenshots too, especially for 'first kill' screenshots for your guild's raids. ^_^

Comment by Googolplex

If you want to make sure your Banners are used whenever possible, use this macro:

I used mine with Mutilate, bind it do an often used spell and you should be fine :)

I filtered out the errors, since I don't like them!

Comment by Astrillian

I would have loved to see a Guild Battle Standard for a damage boost.

Something like this.

Honored Guild Battle Standard - 2% Increase in damage and healing for all within 100 yards

Revered Guild Battle Standard - 5% Increase in damage and healing for all within 100 yards

Exalted Guild Battle Standard - 10% Increase in damage and healing for all within 100 yards

Does NOT stack!

Great for Boss Fights!

Comment by Etamalgren

I found out today that the reputation bonus is multiplicative with other effects. For example: A mob that ordinarily gives 100 rep gives 126.5 rep with both this standard and the guild perk rep bonus.Haven't tested it with the human rep bonus.

Comment by GangstaMidget

From what I can gather above, aparently you can use it for bosses.I've tried using it with Beth'tilac and Shannox and get a message saying "You can't use that here" (or something along those lines).Will this only work for Zandoms (Zalandari Random Heroics) / Other DUNGEONS not raids.Any comfirmation on this or do I need to buy a new one?Please and thanks in advanced. :)

Comment by SteelBlade

Since most fights last less than 15 mins you can pretty much put this down at every pull and not have to worry about forgeting it.Even if a fight lasts longer than 15 mins you can cast it again since the cooldown on it its 10 mins.

Great change blizz.

Comment by SteelBlade

Since most fights last less than 15 mins you can pretty much put this down at every pull and not have to worry about forgeting it.Even if a fight lasts longer than 15 mins you can cast it again since the cooldown on it its 10 mins.

Great change blizz.

Comment by Soeroah

I have to admit, I'm a little confused as to why an item that requires Friendly to use can only be purchased at Honoured or above. It's also a bit annoying that by the time you are honoured with the guild you'd probably be close to the maximum level, if my level 69 Druid who just hit Friendly is any indication.

Comment by Redroach21

Does anyone know if this is broken, seems to still only last 2 min.

Ignore, working now, Looks like you need to use it once to reset the timer.

So, if you're, say, grinding Steamwheedle rep at Lost Rigger Cove between arena pops, it's still worth it to drop your Battle Standard of Coordination on the campfire in the middle of the north camp.

Comment by Yardit

An excellent item when farming old raids and instances where you can gather all the mobs up, drop down the banner and voila collect your 15% increased reputation. Especially useful in places such as black temple, hyjal where there is a lot of mobs you can just collect and aoe.

Comment by skuggfax

To all you people that have been struggling with the issue of the flag disapearing if you move too far away from it, I was gonna use it myself in a dungeon to farm reputation and I was gonna pull mobs to it since they were more than 100 yards away from it, though when I came to the flag with a pack of mobs it was gone...so anyways I contacted a GM about this and he told me it's a known issue that they are trying to fix and it is NOT intended that the flag shall disapear even if you move more than 100 yards from it, even if you would say put it in Orgrimmar and then take the zeppelin to Undercity and then HS back it shall still be there. Really annoying bug though :(

Comment by MyPetsAreEpic

Does not increase the experience gain when killing pets in Pet Battles.

Comment by cecilszivos

I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned that this item will actually give the extra 15% honor within Alterac Valley when Captain Balinda Stonehearth, Vanndar Stormpike and the bunkers are killed/destroyed. While it isn't that much extra honor (only about a total of 25 honor, if it is a winning battleground) it is definitely worth doing especially when it is AV weekend because your banner should be off it's cooldown every new match and the honor will begin to add up.

Without the banner's buff Captain Balinda Stonehearth and the bunkers give about 30 honor | With the banner's buff you receive about 34 honor.Without the banner's buff Vanndar Stormpike will give about 39 honor | With the banner's buff you receive about 45 honor.

I do also have the guild perk buff to honor, so if your honor ends up being a little lower that is most likely the reason.

I apologize that I do not have a exact recommended placement for the banner unlike how I did when talking about the Alliance's banner. I would just suggest that you throw it down where ever you will be for the most amount of time when the bunkers are capping. It seems that horde players end up piling around at the Aid Station graveyard so that is where I would imagine the best spot would be. Just make sure you throw it close enough to Vanndar so you do not risk the banner/buff disappearing when you engage Vann.

I decided to post this because I was surprised at how little people knew about this on my server. I hope this is helpful for people who did not realize that the banner's buff would apply to Alterac Valley because lets be honest, who wouldn't want extra honor when all you have to do is click an item, heh.

Comment by Monstaah

after carrying this thing around for some time now and managing to use it perhaps a dozen times intentionally, i've finally just put it into an AoE macro. the result is i now use this up to 6 times more per hour than i ever had before without thinking about it..

Comment by moblinman

As of this posting, this works with the new Sunreaver Onslaught rep items gained from the Troves of the Thunder King scenario, making them worth 27-28 rep instead of 25.

Comment by wattu

As of patch 5.2, does not increase reputation gained for the Shado-Pan Assault.

Comment by Pipkins

"Use: Place a Guild Battle Standard that increases the experience, honor and reputation gain from killing monsters for all guild members that stay within 100 yards of the Battle Standard by 15%. Lasts 15 min. (10 Min Cooldown)"This is a daft question, but does it affect you?

Comment by amgyn

Just a note - this requires Honored with guild to buy - friendly to use....

Comment by Jerodast

THIS ITEM IS NOT CONSUMED ON USE. That's the most important thing to know that may not be apparent from the tooltip. I didn't understand how this could be a good investment until I realized this fact :)

Now, AN UPDATE on the "STANDARD DISAPPEARS if I move out of range" issue: I did a little casual testing over the past couple days. The news is perhaps not perfect, but great for instance farmers.

Planted it while in a raid group (no guildies) waiting to attack Galleon, flew to Halfhill, and came back immediately. It was gone.

A less extreme test: planted on the south side of the Celestial Court (Timeless Isle). Didn't check, but probably no guildies around. Definitely a lot of OTHER people around. Keeping banner selected, started riding away. It was still selected and not even off my minimap when it disappeared; rode back and it was gone. It probably slipped away the moment I was out of range (possibly even earlier than that?). I only made it about 2/3 the width of the Court (south side) before it vanished.

So at least in crowded areas, with no guildies around, and a low end computer, it's quite fragile. That's the bad news.

The good news is I went into Shadow Labyrinth to farm Lower City rep and pulled the first two rooms into the hallway between bosses 1 & 2, where I dropped a standard and killed them. Bags were full so I stepped outside to sell purples and mail greens to my disenchanter, and went back in expecting to have to wait on the cooldown. Not so! Even after a good 5 minutes outside the instance, the standard was still where I left it.

I had similar luck in Molten Core by pulling Gehennas, Garr, Baron Geddon, and Shazzrah (one at a time) into "the tunnel" where I had dropped the banner. All four bosses got bonus, only planted it once.

Hope this info helps & reassures.

Comment by ns88

Anyone else having the problem that this item dissapears after 1 minute and not 15 minutes as stated? Yes im still in the same guild and exalted. Its just broken it seems.

Comment by Deathkblood

Does anyone know if this stacks? Say if me & another guildy placed one down each would it be increased by 30%?

Comment by Briandris

I wish this was BoA. Another item you only need for a short time and then every toon must use up a bag slot to keep it.

Comment by Henderman

Does this work in WoD? I'm not getting bonus Steamwheedle Preservation rep when I drop it and turn in my items.

Comment by jcangst

This doesn't seem to work so far in Draenor. I tried to use this to try to boost Draenor reputations while killing mobs for the Apexis dailies, but I am recieving the same amount of Frostwolf or Arrakoa Outcast reputation whether or not I use it.

Comment by sorcerer25

Violet Hold is one the PERFECT instance for this, you gonna have the bonus all instance long ;)

Comment by Kaiservash

i COULD swear it does NOT stack with the Darkmoon +10% rep hat, but im not going to, because i could be mistaken... haven't done any math but i've been grinding a rep by doing all the WotLK's hc's and didn't see no difference between only the hat or hat + this... If any can say something will be much appreciated.

Forgive the broke english if i made any mistake :P

Comment by baaboo

Seems to work with pvp world quests in legion. Got 345 honor from a tower wq instead of the usual 300 when I plonked it on the ground. Wish I had known earlier... :/

Comment by Taridiacie

Can be used on almost all Broken Isles' PvP World Quests for a small (but it all adds up) amount of extra Honor.Does work on all "Warden Tower Assault:" awarding 345 honor.Does work on Bareback Brawl awarding 575 honor.While doing Operation Murloc Freedom at location and dropping banner, I did not recieve extra, but I did when auto-completing*Need to confirm Black Rook Rumble and Darkbrul Arena.

Comment by fricked

I don't know if its intended, but I'm at Molten Core, and it despawns as soon as I kill one boss.

Comment by heidiwi

I've submitted a screen shot for this. I placed my Battle Standard of Coordination down today and noticed metals on each side,3 in a row. I've never seen these before and couldn't find information that would explain this.

Comment by activeminds

Edit: Now it does work! :D

As of 8.0 this doesn't seem to give bonus honor when completing PvP WQs :(

Comment by Turkeychopio

Not working in 8.0. Seems to plant some random guild's tabard (might be a default one) and disappear after one boss

EDIT: Hotfix on 20th July was supposed to fix it. It now appears as the correct guild logo but does not give any extra rep

EDIT: Fixed now. Still despawns after killing a boss however. Not sure if intended

Comment by melodelic

As of 7/28/18, I used this with some Darnassus Commendation Badge and still got only 250 rep. I should've gotten 287 (or 288 depending on how if they round the 37.5 extra rep up or down.)

Never mind, apparently I misread this and it's just for killing monsters.

Comment by azteh

For anyone who wants to purchase this item. You need to be honored with your guild in order to buy it now.

Comment by Zoeila

FFS why is this not bind in account? it's hard enough as it is to find a guild that has this now i have to send any alt's into that guild to obtain it?